Re: No Child Left Glued to the Table

["PRISCILLA GUTIERREZ" <pgutpgut@msn.com>]

Art, seems like you need a remedial reading course yourself.  The rampant 
corruption within Reading First is forcing schools to adopt scripted 
programs, and they are being threatened with loss of funds if they don't 
follow the program exactly.  But don't let the facts or the truth get in the 
way of your own LITTLE world view...



Priscilla Gutierrez
Outreach Specialist
New Mexico School for the Deaf

....change is inevitable, growth is optional...





> From: aburke5054@aol.com
> Reply-To: arn-l@interversity.org
> To: arn-l@interversity.org
> Subject: Re: [arn-l] No Child Left Glued to the Table
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:01:14 -0500
>
>  This silliness has nothing to do with scientific reading instruction 
> (whatever that is) and everything to do with the poor judgment of people 
> working in the schools. When schools can't cope with little kids handling 
> bottles of glue, blaming NCLB is quite a stretch.
>
>  Art
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: pgutpgut@msn.com
>  To: arn-l@interversity.org; LiteracyForAll@yahoogroups.com
>  Sent: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 7:37 AM
>  Subject: [arn-l] No Child Left Glued to the Table
>
>   Susan Ohanian posted this on her announcements today, and it is one more 
> painful example of scientific reading instruction run amok. Highly 
> qualified teachers under Reading First mandates mean following the script, 
> even if it makes no sense to do so...
>
>  "We are being instructed that during SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION, teachers 
> are NOT to interact with other students. Now last year kindergarten 
> teachers tried to explain how difficult it was to keep 5-year-olds quietly 
> busy with only Harcourt materials while we teachers worked with a small 
> group.
>
>  Let's say you have 24 children, with 7 in a group. This means 17 kids are 
> sitting for up to 40 minutes. . . quietly and NOT DISTURBING THE TEACHER.
>
>  The principal was observing one of the kindergarten teachers during small 
> group time and a little 5-year-old with special needs using glue had the 
> horrific experience of the top coming off of the bottle. Understandably, 
> that child went up to the teacher--THE ADULT IN CHARGE. Also 
> understandably--and professionally--the teacher got up to help this child.
>
>  That evening, the teacher got an email from the principal telling her SHE 
> IS NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER STUDENTS during small 
> group instruction (unless there is a real emergency)!
>
>  Here was a 5-year-old, covered in glue. What was he/she to do--get STUCK 
> TO THE TABLE waiting for 20 minutes until the teacher finished with that 
> one group?
>
>  GROWN-UPS, EDUCATED PEOPLE, ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS HERE IN BUFFALO, and 
> we are supposed to condone this form of child abuse! "
>
>  â?? teacher
>  Buffalo School System
>  2007-01-10
>
>
>
>  Priscilla Gutierrez
>  Outreach Specialist
>  New Mexico School for the Deaf
>
>  ....change is inevitable, growth is optional...
>
>
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